Re: magit copyright assignments

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: lele@metapensiero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:21:32 -0400
> 
>   > > It's your call of course, but it seems strange to me: say I contributed
>   > > 20 lines of code some time ago, and in the meantime someone edited it
>   > > slightly, splitting it, moving it around, changing indentation... "git
>   > > annotate" will say that most of my lines of code "belong" to someone
>   > > else, but does that really matter in the context of copyright
>   > > assignment? I'd say that I had still contributed those 20 lines of code,
>   > > and thus I should sign the assignment paper, shouldn't I?
> 
> Lele is right -- so it seems that `git annotate' is not the right way
> to count someone's contribution.
> 
>   > What about the other case: you contributed some code, but later all of
>   > that was deleted?
> 
> In this case, there is no need for this contributor to submit papers.

Which means "git annotate" actually _is_ the right way, at least part
of it.  The question is where to start and how to converge between
these two.

> I think it will not be terribly hard to checl by hand for this
> rare situation.

I don't know how to test that by hand.